FLEA: Fresnel-limited extraction algorithm applied to spectral phase interferometry for direct field reconstruction (SPIDER)

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 5743-5758

  Pasquazi, Alessia ^a   Peccianti, Marco ^b   Azana, José ^a   Moss, David J ^c   Morandotti, Roberto ^a  

^a INRS EMT   (Canada)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; INTERFEROMETRY; WAVE EFFECTS;

EXTRACTION ALGORITHMS; FIELD RECONSTRUCTION; SPECTRAL PHASE INTERFEROMETRY; TIME WINDOWS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84875197395     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.005743     Document Type: Article

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